6 STORIES
1992 · 90S
CHIPPING NORTON, UK
The song that made Radiohead famous was recorded almost by accident — a throwaway the band had been using to warm up, which the producers ta…
1995 · 90S
CANARY WHARF, LONDON, UK
Radiohead's most devastating ballad started life as something closer to a joke, and reportedly took shape after Thom Yorke watched Jeff Buck…
1995 · 90S
A reluctant ballad from a band already plotting its escape from the very sound that made it famous, "High and Dry" is Radiohead's most acces…
1997 · 90S
A surreal anthem of bureaucratic dread disguised as a piano ballad, "Karma Police" turned an inside joke from a Radiohead tour bus into one …
1997 · 90S
A lullaby sung from inside a sealed-off life. Radiohead's "No Surprises," released as the third single from OK Computer in 1997, dresses des…
1997 · 90S
ST CATHERINE'S COURT, BATH, UK
The song that made Radiohead sound like prophets of the digital age started as something much smaller and nastier: a bad night in a Los Ange…